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In this paper a conservation equation is derived for the radially dependent entropy in toroidal geometry using the local approximation of the gyro-kinetic framework. This equation naturally leads to an operative definition for the…

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We report on the results of a simulation based study of colliding magnetized plasma flows. Our set-up mimics pulsed power laboratory astrophysical experiments but, with an appropriate frame change, are relevant to astrophysical jets with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-15 R. N. Markwick , A. Frank , E. G. Blackman , J. Carroll-Nellenback , S. V. Lebedev , D. R. Russell , J. W. D. Halliday , L. G. Suttle , P. M. Hartigan

Two dimensional flows on fixed smooth surfaces have been studied in the point of view of vorticity dynamics. Firstly, the related deformation theory including kinematics and kinetics is developed. Secondly, some primary relations in…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2013-04-19 Xi-Lin Xie

Strongly driven ion-scale turbulence in tokamak plasmas is shown to be regulated by a new propagating zonal flow mode, the toroidal secondary mode, which is nonlinearly supported by the turbulence. The mode grows and propagates due to the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-03-24 Richard Nies , Felix Parra , Michael Barnes , Noah Mandell , William Dorland

We consider the dynamics of rotationally supported thin galactic disc composed of stars and gas under the influence of external tidal field and derive the coupled differential equations governing the evolution of instabilities. Further…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-05-28 K. Aditya

In this paper, a multi-dimensional fractional wave equation that describes propagation of the damped waves is introduced and analyzed. In contrast to the fractional diffusion-wave equation, the fractional wave equation contains fractional…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-03-12 Yuri Luchko

The theoretical study of the self-organization of two-dimensional and geophysical turbulent flows is addressed based on statistical mechanics methods. This review is a self-contained presentation of classical and recent works on this…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2011-10-31 Freddy Bouchet , Antoine Venaille

The scaling of turbulent heat flux with respect to electrostatic potential is examined in the framework of a reduced ($4$D) kinetic system describing electrostatic turbulence in magnetized plasmas excited by the ion temperature gradient…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-05-22 Vasil Bratanov , Swadesh Mahajan , David Hatch

The dual magneto-hydrodynamics of dyonic plasma describes the study of electrodynamics equations along with the transport equations in the presence of electrons and magnetic monopoles. In this paper, we formulate the quaternionic dual…

General Physics · Physics 2018-08-17 B. C. Chanyal , Mayank Pathak

Equilibrium eigenstates of an axisymmetric magnetically confined plasma with toroidal flow are investigated by means of exact solutions of the ideal magnetohydrodynamic equations. The study includes "compressible" flows with constant…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Poulipoulis , George Throumoulopoulos , Henri Tasso

The possibility that the type of discontinuous flow changes as the conditions gradually (continuously) change is investigated in connection with the problems arising when the results of numerical simulations of magnetic reconnection in…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2013-12-13 L. S. Ledentsov , B. V. Somov

We investigate the drift wave -- zonal flow dynamics in a shearless slab geometry with the new flux-balanced Hasegawa-Wakatani model. As in previous Hasegawa-Wakatani models, we observe a sharp transition from a turbulence dominated regime…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 Di Qi , Andrew J. Majda , Antoine J. Cerfon

A 2D hydrodynamical model is developed and analyzed for the steady state of a driven-dissipative dust clouds confined in an azimuthally symmetric toroidal system which is in dynamic equilibrium with background unbounded streaming plasma.…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-10-17 Modhuchandra Laishram , Ping Zhu

By using a formulation of motion equations for a viscous (compressible) fluid flow in terms of the vorticity and the rate of expansion as the main fluid dynamical variables, an approximation model is established for compressible flows with…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-08-17 Zhongmin Qian , Zihao Shen

Irreversible processes play a major role in the description and prediction of atmospheric dynamics. In this paper, we present a variational derivation of the evolution equations for a moist atmosphere with rain process and subject to the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-04-27 François Gay-Balmaz

A new strategy is presented to explain the creation and persistence of zonal flows widely observed in plasma edge turbulence. The core physics in the edge regime of the magnetic-fusion tokamaks can be described qualitatively by the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-01-28 Di Qi , Andrew J. Majda

By means of variational methods, in this paper, we establish sharp existence results for solutions of the master equations governing `fractional multiple vortices.' In the doubly periodic situation, the conditions for existence are both…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-04-13 Chang-Shou Lin , Gabriella Tarantello , Yisong Yang

We have developed a three-dimensional numerical model and applied it to simulate plasma flows in semi-detached binary systems whose accretor possesses a strong intrinsic magnetic field. The model is based on the assumption that the plasma…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-10-26 A. G. Zhilkin , D. V. Bisikalo

A nonlinear unified fluid model that describes the Equatorial Electrojet, including the Farley-Buneman and gradient-drift plasma instabilities, is defined and shown to be a noncanonical Hamiltonian system. Two geometric constants of motion…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-11-29 Ehab Hassan , I. Keramidas Charidakos , P. J. Morrison , D. R. Hatch , W. Horton

The adiabatic inhomogeneities of the scalar curvature lead to a compressible flow affecting the dynamics of the hydromagnetic nonlinearities. The influence of the plasma on the evolution of a putative magnetic field is explored with the aim…

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